Word: conventioneers
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TIME went to the 31st Republican Convention with a squadron of editors, writers, correspondents and researchers. From the opening gavel on Monday to the oratorical wind-up on Thursday, we found ourselves in a Kansas City that was boiling-climatically and politically. Despite the heat, the noise and the crunch...
It was a helluva convention. It will be a helluva campaign. Moreover, it will matter, for it will give the nation a clear-cut choice between opposing economic and social policies that will influence America's course for decades. The Republican Party came away with one more, possibly last chance...
Certainly it was the most dramatic convention since the Republicans in 1952 chose Dwight Eisenhower over Robert Taft; indeed it was one of the most fascinating conventions of this century. As the G.O.P. assembled in Kansas City, a sitting President, albeit appointed as a result of Watergate, was facing revolt...
The speech changed the atmosphere; but it would take much more than one platform triumph to turn the party around. The Republicans are still racked by divisions and face a tough, intelligent opponent, Jimmy Carter, who has come out of rural Georgia to lead a revitalized Democratic Party. While the...
Many voters in the primaries understood Carter to be fairly conservative; yet at the New York convention, he chose a deeply liberal running mate, Mondale, and virtually dictated many parts of a party platform considerably to the left of the Carter image.